rationals

Interface StateFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultStateFactory

public interface StateFactory

This class is used by Automaton objects to create new states on A user can implement its own version of StateFactory by providing an implementation for createState

Version:

$Id: StateFactory.java 10 2007-05-30 17:25:00Z oqube $

Author:

Arnaud.Bailly - bailly@lifl.fr

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	clone() Returns a new StateFactory object which is the same as this StateFactory.
State	create(boolean initial, boolean terminal)
Set<State>	stateSet() Return a new empty set that can contains State instances created by this factory.

Method Detail

create

State create(boolean initial,
             boolean terminal)

Parameters:

initial - initial

terminal - terminal

Returns:

state

stateSet

Set<State> stateSet()

Return a new empty set that can contains State instances created by this factory. This method is provided for optimisation purposes so that more efficient implementations than plain sets can be used for handling sets of states.

Returns:

an - opaque - implementation of Set.

clone

Object clone()
      throws CloneNotSupportedException

Returns a new StateFactory object which is the same as this StateFactory.

Returns:

an initialized StateFactory.

Throws:

CloneNotSupportedException - if clone not supported